What’s On
Leo Bensemann: Paradise Garden
A collection of Leo Bensemann’s extraordinary Mohua Golden Bay landscape paintings.
He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil
Our new collection exhibition is now open.
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
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The Last Great Air Race, London – Christchurch 1953
On the 8th of October 1953 what has been described as the Last Great Air Race got under way when an assortment of both civil and military aircraft departed Heathrow Airport, London to race each other halfway round the world to Christchurch.
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Wainui, Akaroa by Rita Angus
This article first appeared as 'On view' in The Press on 15 June 2012.
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We Won't Need Legs To Stand
Next time you are on Gloucester / Montreal Streets make sure you check out Sam Eng's installation We Won't Need Legs To Stand.
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Sweeping it all away
This town provides some dramatic scenes on a daily basis if you care to stop to take a look.
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Day Tripper: Over the Hills and Across the Water
A day trip to Te Waipapa/Diamond Harbour provides a great opportunity to escape the rat-in-a-maze feeling that is modern Christchurch—a feeling generated by the myriad road closures and detours and the miles of hurricane fencing that currently litter the remnants of the city. To get out amongst the harbour waters and Banks Peninsula hills is a true pleasure, even with the recent loss of one of the Peninsula’s finest buildings, Godley House in Diamond Harbour.
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Trip down memory lane
I was fortunate enough to visit the Robert McDougall Art Gallery last week and was struck by the beauty of this building.
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Demo Town
Demolition of Christchurch's CBD has really stepped up over the past few months with whole blocks transforming into vast wastelands...
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Jekyll and Hyde
Jason's Greig's exhibition The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is currently on show at the Ashburton Art Gallery and it's well worth the drive from Christchurch.
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Going home in the dark
On a balmy night last week Nathan Pohio and myself were making our way home through the city streets only to be greeted by this great big backlit monolith being torn apart by a nibbler.
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Leo Bensemann's centenary
Today is the centenary of the birth of Canterbury artist Leo Bensemann and Peter Simpson, Leo's biographer, has contributed an insightful article on the Christchurch Art Gallery's collection of Leo Bensmann's work which you can read here.